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National Audio Co. is the only company in the U.S. that produces cassette tape. Now, as cassette tapes enjoy a resurgence in popularity, National Audio has less than a year's supply left of the stuff, The Wall Street Journal reports.
For the last 15 years, National Audio's co-owner and president Steve Stepp has been clinging to his company's dwindling supply of music-quality magnetic tape. In 2014, National Audio's South Korean supplier stopped making the material, so Stepp bought out their remaining stock before they shuttered — and has been left with a shrinking stockpile ever since.
Although the demand for tape has increased in recent years, the quality and supply has not; National Audio has long relied on outdated gear that Stepp jokes is "the finest equipment the 1960s has to offer." That's why the company — which makes cassettes for everyone from indie bands to Metallica — is planning to build the U.S.'s first high-grade tape manufacturing line in decades.
Crap! Where am I going to store my TRS-80 programs now?
Source: https://theweek.com/speedreads/735269/america-running-cassette-tape
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @02:30PM
dude who would do all that stuff you listed
just buy a $20 mp3 player and get a 2 gig CF card or something. better yet it supports headphones and probably AA batteries so you can replace them easily and even use rechargables if you wanted. great for workouts and probably won't break if you drop it
people do not need to carry their ENTIRE library with them, or have internet connection.
you make me laugh. you rag on windows 10 to play media as if its the only thing, then a raspebrry pi for $50? you think regular people are going to set one up? to use an actual computer to play music? christ you can get a used android tablet with a terrible horrible screen running 2.x something that plays mp3s just fine if you can figure out where to shove the memory chip.
i cant think of anybody ever that just wants to listen to music on the cheap that even know what you said, except for the CD and DRM acronyms. they arent worried about windows 10 i promise you so stop being an IT guy and just press play